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The Temptress (1920 Film)
''The Temptress'' is a 1920 British silent romance film directed by George Edwardes-Hall and starring Yvonne Arnaud, Langhorn Burton and John Gliddon.Low p.462 Cast * Yvonne Arnaud as Amy Howard * Langhorn Burton as Allan Ashton * John Gliddon as Paul Howard * Christine Maitland as Mrs. Tredgett * Austin Leigh as John Howard * Edward Sorley as Arthur Stanley * Bruce Winston as Reggie Featherstone * Lennox Pawle as Perkins * Saba Raleigh Saba Raleigh was the pseudonym of ''Isabel Pauline Rowlands'', née ''Ellissen'' (8 August 1862 – 22 August 1923), an English actress. On 31 March 1894 she became the second wife of Abraham Cecil Francis Fothergill Rowlands, the actor and playw ... as Mrs. Tredgett References Bibliography * Low, Rachael. ''History of the British Film, 1918-1929''. George Allen & Unwin, 1971. External links * 1920 films 1920s romance films British romance films British silent feature films British black-and-white films 1920s Engl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Godal
Edward Godal was a British film producer and director. During the First World War Godal ran a training school for actors. He became a leading independent producer of British films after the war, becoming managing director of the small but ambitious British & Colonial, based at Walthamstow Studios from 1918 to 1924. He later became involved with plans to make colour films at the newly built Elstree Studios and a proposed big-budget adaptation of an H.G. Wells novel, neither of which came to anything.Low p.198-199 His producing career largely ended with the arrival of sound in 1929, and he made only one further film, in 1938. Selected filmography * '' 12.10'' (1919) * '' Queen's Evidence'' (1919) * '' The Scarlet Wooing'' (1920) * '' The Sword of Damocles'' (1920) * ''The Black Spider'' (1920) * ''The Temptress'' (1920) * '' Desire'' (1920) * ''The Puppet Man'' (1921) * '' The Audacious Mr. Squire'' (1923) * '' Heartstrings'' (1923) * ''The Taming of the Shrew'' (1923) * '' The D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edward Sorley
Edward Sorley (1871 – 16 October 1933) was a British actor. Sorley was born in Camberwell, Surrey and died at age 62 in Blackheath, London. Selected filmography * '' Queen's Evidence'' (1919) * ''The Temptress'' (1920) * '' The Sword of Damocles'' (1920) * '' The Night Hawk'' (1921) * '' Mord Em'ly'' (1922) * ''The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots'' (1923) * '' Bulldog Drummond's Third Round'' (1925) * '' Nell Gwyn'' (1926) * ''Dawn Dawn is the time that marks the beginning of twilight before sunrise. It is recognized by the appearance of indirect sunlight being scattered in Earth's atmosphere, when the centre of the Sun's disc has reached 18° below the observer's hori ...'' (1928) References External links * 1871 births 1933 deaths English male stage actors English male film actors English male silent film actors Actors from Camberwell 19th-century English male actors 20th-century English male actors {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Black-and-white Films
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British Silent Feature Films
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British Romance Films
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1920s Romance Films
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1920 Films
The year 1920 in film involved some significant events. __TOC__ Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top three films released in 1920 by U.S. gross are as follows: Events * March 28 - "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford and "Everybody's Hero" Douglas Fairbanks marry, becoming the first supercouple of Hollywood. * August – Jack Cohn, Joe Brandt and Harry Cohn form C. B. C. Film Sales Corporation which would later become Columbia Pictures. * November 27 – '' The Mark of Zorro'', starring Douglas Fairbanks opens. Notable films released in 1920 Austria :For a complete list see: ''List of Austrian films of the 1920s'' * ''Anita'' (aka ''Trance''), directed by Luise Kolm and Jakob Fleck; an obscure adaptation of George Du Maurier's novel ''Trilby'' *''Boccaccio'', directed by Michael Curtiz. *''The Prince and the Pauper'' directed by Alexander Korda. *'' The Scourge of God'' directed by Michael Curtiz. *''The Star of Damascus'' directed by Michael Curtiz. France :For a complete li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Saba Raleigh
Saba Raleigh was the pseudonym of ''Isabel Pauline Rowlands'', née ''Ellissen'' (8 August 1862 – 22 August 1923), an English actress. On 31 March 1894 she became the second wife of Abraham Cecil Francis Fothergill Rowlands, the actor and playwright Cecil Raleigh, and was often billed as "Mrs. Cecil Raleigh". Selected filmography * '' The Two Orphans'' (1915) billed as Mrs. Cecil Raleigh * ''The Clemenceau Case'' (1915) billed as Mrs. Cecil Raleigh * ''Profit and the Loss'' (1917) * ''Desire'' (1920) * ''The Temptress'' (1920) * ''The Princess of New York'' (1921) * ''Love Maggy ''Love Maggy'' is a 1921 British silent drama film directed by Fred LeRoy Granville and starring Peggy Hyland, Campbell Gullan and James Lindsay.Quinlan p.121 It was made at Isleworth Studios as a sequel to the 1920 film ''The Honeypot''. Cas ...'' (1921) References External links * 1862 births 1923 deaths English stage actresses English film actresses English silent film actresses 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lennox Pawle
Lennox Pawle (27 April 1872, in Marylebone, Middlesex – 22 February 1936, in Los Angeles, California) was an English stage and film actor. Life and career John Lennox Pawle was born in Marylebone, London, on 27 April 1872, the son of John Christopher Pawle, a London solicitor, and his wife, Maria. Before becoming an actor Pawle worked as a newspaper reporter; later he began his acting career at Sarah Thorne’s Dramatic School. The heavyset actor gained experience in London, where before the turn of the century he was already known as a comic actor and eventually became a member of Maude Adams's Playhouse company. Pawle arrived in America in 1910 and worked at the Broadway Theatre, where he acted in five plays. He married Dorothy Parker when they returned to England in 1914. It was Pawle’s second (possibly third) marriage after being granted a divorce from Janet Mary Pawle in 1909. Lennox Pawle remained in England during the years of the First World War but returned to Broa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Austin Leigh
Austin Leigh was a British stage and film actor. Selected filmography * ''Brigadier Gerard'' (1915) * '' Beau Brocade'' (1916) * ''The Temptress'' (1920) * '' Desire'' (1920) * '' Adventures of Captain Kettle'' (1922) * '' Old Bill Through the Ages'' (1924) * ''Bulldog Drummond's Third Round ''The Third Round'' (1925) was the second silent film adaptation of the Bulldog Drummond character, starring Jack Buchanan and Betty Faire, adapted by Sidney Morgan from the novel of the same name by H. C. McNeile, and directed by Morgan. Cas ...'' (1925) References External links * Year of birth missing Year of death missing British male film actors British male silent film actors British male stage actors 20th-century British male actors {{UK-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Émile Augier
Guillaume Victor Émile Augier (; 17 September 182025 October 1889) was a French dramatist. He was the thirteenth member to occupy seat 1 of the Académie française on 31 March 1857. Biography Augier was born at Valence, Drôme Valence (, ; oc, Valença ) is a commune in southeastern France, the prefecture of the Drôme department and within the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It is situated on the left bank of the Rhône, about south of Lyon, along the railway line ..., the grandson of Pigault Lebrun, and belonged to the well-to-do bourgeoisie in spirit as well as by birth. After a good education and legal training, he wrote a play in two acts and in verse, ''La Ciguë'' (1844), which was refused at the Théâtre Français, but produced with as considerable success at the Odéon. This settled his career. From then on, at fairly regular intervals, either alone or in collaboration with other writers—Jules Sandeau, Eugène Marin Labiche, Édouard Foussier—he produced p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Romance Film
Romance films or movies involve romantic love stories recorded in visual media for broadcast in theatres or on television that focus on passion, emotion, and the affectionate romantic involvement of the main characters. Typically their journey through dating, courtship or marriage is featured. These films make the search for romantic love the main plot focus. Occasionally, romance lovers face obstacles such as finances, physical illness, various forms of discrimination, psychological restraints or family resistance. As in all quite strong, deep and close romantic relationships, the tensions of day-to-day life, temptations (of infidelity), and differences in compatibility enter into the plots of romantic films. Romantic films often explore the essential themes of love at first sight young and mature love, unrequited love, obsession, sentimental love, spiritual love, forbidden love, platonic love, sexual and passionate love, sacrificial love, explosive and destructive love, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
